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July 31

In the Prologue to the edition of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, completed upon this last day of July in 1485, its printer, William Caxton wrote: “After I had accomplysshed & Fynsshed dyvershystoryes as wel of contemplacyon as of other hystorycal and worldly actes of grete conquerors & prynces, And also certeyn bookes of ensaumples and doctryne, […]